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jemmesedi

@jemmesedi@c.im

Intermittent humanities education worker. Brit resident in USA.

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flexghost, (edited ) to random
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** IT’S HERE! FRIDAY NIGHT MUSIC THREAD ON **

Tonight’s theme is:

✨🏅☄️ TOP SHELF! 🎀🏆✨󠁯󠀭

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🎵 Post FULL ALBUMS that are a 10/10 all the way through along with what you’re drinking. 🎶
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  1. Iron Maiden - The Number of the Beast
  2. Genesis - Selling England By The Pound
  3. Aesop Rock - The Impossible Kid
  4. Fleetwood Mac - Rumours

(Multiple submissions welcome)

Oban 14

Post often • share • make some friends

jemmesedi,
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@flexghost

David Bowie -- The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_lLqrDSsxVNgt7dqhjvnHtKh0PAHIDw5Lw

I could say so much about this seminal album, but you'd be better off actually listening to it.

Drinking Texas Leaguer 2 Hopper India Pale Ale. It's OK, but not great. Texas does some IPAs that I prefer, like Axis from Blanco.

jemmesedi, to UKpolitics
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The use of UK crown dependencies, and overseas territories for tax avoidance, tax evasion, and money laundering must be ended.

To plead "If we don't do it, somebody else will" is to adopt the rhetoric of pimps and pushers.

Nearly 40% of dirty money is laundered in London and UK crown dependencies | Tax havens | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/14/nearly-40-of-dirty-money-is-laundered-in-london-and-uk-crown-dependenies

jemmesedi, to Fashion
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I loathe cargo pants.

A brief history of cargo pants, the military’s greatest fashion contribution

https://www.militarytimes.com/off-duty/military-culture/2020/09/12/a-brief-history-of-cargo-pants-the-militarys-greatest-fashion-contribution/

flexghost, to random
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** IT’S HERE! FRIDAY NIGHT MUSIC THREAD ON **

Tonight’s theme is:

🌊✩°🩵 YOU’RE MY BOY, BLUE! 🩵✩°🌊

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🎵 Post songs with “blue” in the title or lyrics along with what you’re drinking. 🎶
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Mr. Blue Sky, please tell us why
You had to hide away for so long (so long)
Where did we go wrong?

🍷 Electric Light Orchestra ‘Mr. Blue Sky’ + Mermaid Mule🍸

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ELO BITCH!

jemmesedi,
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@flexghost

Taeyeon -- Blue

https://youtu.be/K2oQoRTF3KM?si=

Strong black tea, no sugar.

jemmesedi,
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@flexghost

Typhoo, from a bag.

I keep Darjeeling for special occasions.

Tea is such a wonderful drink!

jemmesedi,
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@flexghost MMM- sounds nice. I hope you really enjoy it.

My daughter likes to drink chai ; I like seeing her take pleasure in this.

jemmesedi,
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@flexghost

I would not have guessed that Turkey has the highest per capita tea consumption, although I would have put them in the top ten.

I'm also surprised to see Chile in the top ten, ahead of Egypt and Japan.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_tea_consumption_per_capita

flexghost, to random
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Word.

ما في يد وحدة بتدق

Where are all the Hillary was right people now? She's spitting facts...just like all the other facts you choose to ignore for your narrative

jemmesedi,
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@flexghost

In a way its refreshing to see no effort being made to conceal the antisemitism.

The call for police protection for "anti-Jewish students" should be filed alongside the the Columbia occupiers' plea for the university to provide food supplies as "humanitarian aid" . Had such catering been provided, I'm sure there would have been complaints about insufficient menu options and the lack of assurance that the coffee was shade grown....

eivind, to histodons
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OTD, 7 May 1945, the Norwegian paper Aftenposten published literary Nobel laureate Knut Hamsun's Hitler obituray. @histodons

jemmesedi,
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@eivind @histodons

I know he was an odious individual, but I would like to read "Hunger".

jemmesedi, to random
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Lou Harrison -- In Honor of the Divine Mr. Handel

🧵 1/2
There I was, enjoying what seemed to me to be an interesting fusion of East and West...

https://youtu.be/pwzdUceyIdI?si=tVIz5rhRTcLQMaxN

jemmesedi,
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🧵 2/2
...but then I came across this paper, which concludes on this note:

>> I argue that this is indeed the
case with Harrison’s music for Western instruments with gamelan; although he
presents the gamelan-derived materials in a way that seems to grant them equity
with his own Western compositional processes, it strikes me as naïve to suppose
that they represent only the “transcultural warmth and understanding” with
which Harrison and his fans imbue them. I contend that much of what appeals
to Western audiences in Harrison’s pieces, in fact, lies precisely in the way they
seem to meet other musical worlds more than halfway while covertly asserting
Western musical sensibilities, making the music comfortably (again, in Jonathan
Bernard’s words) “exotic and familiar at the same time”. <<

https://music.arts.uci.edu/abauer/Cross-Cultural/readings/40.1.spiller.pdf

jemmesedi,
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@zdl

yes, I think you are right about that in general , although I'm not sure* whether that applies to Lou Harrison's works.

*Genuine expression of uncertainty, as opposed to polite expression of disagreement.

Anyway, I'm think about what you've said just now in connection with the collection of "music that doesn't suck'" YouTubes that you recently sent me. I was interested to see that as well as some Chinese music such as the Black Kirin song that uses the same musical language that westerners employ, you also included Chinese music that most westerners (including this one!) find challenging in its unfamiliarity - for example, the Kunqu opera extract.

Did you listen to this latter kind of music when you were growing up? Or have you only come to understand and appreciate it since you moved to China?

jemmesedi,
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@zdl

By the way, you wondered whether there was common theme in your selections.

I am no expert on this kind of classification, but your choices did seem united by a certain spikiness, with a quite strong rockist/antipop current running through it. Even the Chinese selections were notable for being a million miles away**
from the global pop sound that is the background music in shopping malls and so on. I was also interested to see British artists well represented.

** i.e. nothing like this :
https://youtu.be/eiAQLCr-dw0?si=0XRmLtNN2_phsZRh

How you must hate all the girly kpop that I post here!

jemmesedi, to random
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I had forgotten she is the Baroness Shafik, of Camden in the London Borough of Camden and of Alexandria in the Arab Republic of Egypt.

Minouche Shafik: the UK peer facing choppy waters over Gaza protests at Columbia | US campus protests | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/03/minouche-shafik-uk-peer-columbia-university-president-gaza-protests

jemmesedi, to Canada
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>>Is there an official, graspable Canadian identity? No. We are fraught with incomplete reconciliation, spats about carbon and immigration, and regional jealousy. Tims bears witness to it and makes bearing it easier. It’s where a tired refugee can land. It’s hockey cards and retro treats. Identity crisis? Here’s some quick-serve in a large red cup, brewed fresh every twenty minutes.<<

I'm always interested in reading about Canada, but am not well informed enough to judge the worth of this piece. Could a Canadian chip in here?

Tim Hortons Is Brewing an Idea of Canada That No Longer Exists | The Walrus

https://thewalrus.ca/tim-hortons-canada/?utm_source=pocket-newtab-en-us

jemmesedi,
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@zdl

The loss of the on-site handcrafted donut sounds so sad.

Is that loss a common topic for lament and nostalgia amongst Canadians/

jemmesedi,
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@zdl

That's the kind of change that can be quite painful if one hasn't been back to one's country for a long time.

I have not been back to England for about ten years. when I do finally get back there, I'm sure I'll be in for some shocks.

jemmesedi, to USpolitics
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This picture shows US ruling class masculinity at its most unattractive.

Let us hope that history does a swipe left.

Photograph from the Po Publica article "Justice Samuel Alito Took Luxury Fishing Vacation With GOP Billionaire Who Later Had Cases Before the Court"

jemmesedi,
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@zdl

I would just settle for even the tiniest smidgen of shame on the part of Alito or Clarence Thomas.

jemmesedi, to Jpop
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Ayumi Hamasaki -- M

https://youtu.be/03y-KyezDS4?si=Mo_LF9VykJ3_BIPZ

Using a random number generator, I went to song #157 on my playlist #33. I enjoyed listening to a song that I had not played for a long time.

Although Ayumi Hamasaki is famous in Japan, I suspect that outside Japan her name remains unknown outside the circles of East Asian music fans.

#Serendipity #AyumiHamasaki #Jpop #Japan

jemmesedi,
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@zdl

https://youtu.be/9bHG1H7a9Co?si=nAbeQwJjpXSHshSD

Thanks! That was interesting, because i didn't know of this band before.

I have to be honest and say it was not quite my cup of tea, but it was still good hear it. Now I'm a little better informed about British culture if the 80s.

What kinds of music do you most enjoy?

jemmesedi,
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@zdl

https://youtu.be/xyEHKGDSg5I?si=7s6tFeQF_5vhCZkJ

This was my random pick from your random sample. Delightful!

I'm old enough to remember when she burst onto the scene with "Wuthering Heights"

AdeptVeritatis, to Israel
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is going to pay for the atrocities and cruelties it brings to the Palestinians. Some day. Not today and not tomorrow. But it will pay.

But this will not be done by revenge. Revenge only leads to more suffering of those, who already suffer the most.

The hatred needs to be stopped. The call for revenge because of dead children.

This conflict will not stop as long as the bodies of dead children get dragged around for photos. And people share and spread those.

Israel will pay some day.

jemmesedi,
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@jonburr @AdeptVeritatis @Miro_Collas

You might find this informative:

https://www.adl.org/spelling-antisemitism-vs-anti-semitism

jemmesedi, to food
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Articles like this make me warm to a plant based diet.

Can You Eat Cicadas? | TIME

https://time.com/6968973/cicadas-food-how-to-catch-clean-cook-eat/?utm_source=pocket-newtab-en-us

jemmesedi,
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@zdl

I'm afraid I disregarded your advice and looked up "virgin boy egg"...hmmm... I promise I'll listen in future..

Re prion disease - I'm not allowed to give blood outside the UK because I was around in Britain at the time of mad cow disease.

Is there a particular kind of food associated with the region where you live?

jemmesedi,
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@zdl
A lot of those sound delicious. China is rather like France (and not like England!) in having a renowned set of regional cuisines.

>>It's got about 2000 years of ornate culture behind it and it shows.<<

Yes, I'm often struck by this long line of historical continuity in Chinese culture. The I start to wonder if in noticing this I am like an American talking to a European; "Wow! You guys have so much history!"

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